Hollyweird Gazette

For the 2nd week in a row Daniele wins the Power Of Veto! It’s a much more personal decision this week as she has to choose to save herself, or her father Dick. Daniele, Dick, Jen, Joe, Amber and Mike all competed in the “Cutthroat Christmas” competetion. When the house guests went out to the back yard for the challenge, they were welcomed by a winter wonderland. Complete with a Christmas tree and presents. There was a curling alley set up and in each round, the person furthest from the red line was eliminated. That person then got to select a gift from under the tree. After each round was done, the eliminated person could either pick a gift from under the tree, or choose to take a gift from one of the other players already out of the game. Round by round the remaining players dwindled until there was Daniele. She won the power of veto!

During the POV ceremony, Daniele revealed that it was a very hard choice to make being as she was up for eviction with her dad. She got a little choked up which I think surprised everyone including herself. In the end, she did what she had to and took herself off the chopping block. Jen, being the current HOH, then had to put a new nominee up immediately. She went the way everyone was hoping and put Joe on the block. We shall see if Dick has enough supporters in this game to stay another week. Either he or Joe will be going home on Thursday night.

Eric’s challenge from the last episode was to fake sleepwalking and crawl into bed with the person America picked. That person was Joe. Eric had to get into bed with him and stay there until Joe kicked him out of bed. Well, he never did kick Eric out, so mission failed.

His next challenge will be to vote for Dick or Eric. But he has to vote the way America wants him to.

Be sure to check back Thursday night for the outcome of the eviction.

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Miz Weird

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That’s right. Jen, the current HOH in the Big Brother 8 house nominated Dick and Daniele. She has had a couple of run-ins with Dick who has made his dislike for her well known. To her face. Daniele seems to have a special bond with Nick, the hunky ex-football player and Jen wanted him for herself. Jealousy won over and Daniele got put on the block. The POV competition will be played on Thursday. Only then will we know if one of them will be saved. I think if Dick wins it, he may save Daniele. If not only because she’s his daughter, it may just save their relationship.

The house also competed in their next food challenge, Name That Pie, based on the old game show Name That Tune where 2 house guests would have to “outbid” each other and name that pie in so many bites. Now, you’re thinking, “Pie, that would be good”. But think again. They were awful combinations. Anchovy and blueberry, sausage and peach (I think), potato and pineapple. Not something you’d want set before you at your Thanksgiving Day feast. Once again, the loosing team will have to eat BB Slop for the ensuing week.

America’s Player, Eric, has a new challenge. He has to crawl into bed with Jessica. I just hope she doesn’t talk in her sleep for his sake. If I had to choose between listening to her talk or a banshee wailing I’d pick the banshee.

Thursday’s veto competition should be a real nailbiter!

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Miz Weird

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Carol was the first casualty of Big Brother 8. In a 10-1 vote, the house guests spoke. I would have rather seen that whiney little bitch Jessica go, but maybe next week. Her voice drives me crazy!!!

Eric, America’s Player, voted for Carol as America wanted him to. Task 2 completed. 3 more and he’ll have his first $10,000.00.

The HOH competition was held last night also. The house guests had to participate in a “Majority Rules” competition. When Julie asked a question, each house guest had to guess how the majority of the house guests would answer the question.

Jen, the one who threw a fit about her picture on the “wall”, won this competition. That’s too bad…I would like to see her leave as well. Tune in Sunday night to see what happens next!

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Miz Weird

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DANIELE!!!! The current HOH and each of the nominees pick one person to compete in the POV competition. Each person was given a locked POV square and they had to hide them anywhere in the house. Then one at a time, those 6 had to search the house to try to find one. The person whose veto square wasn’t found was the winner. Daniele chose not to use the veto so the nominations stand. Will it be Carol or Amber that goes home Thursday night?

Eric competed his first assignment given out by America. He had to make up a traumatic story and reveal his softer side to Kail, whom America picked. He put visine and contact solution in his eyes to make it appear that he was crying. He then went up to the HOH room to talk to Kail. He concocted a story about a girlfriend he had in high school that had an eating disorder and said that Daniele reminded him of her. Task completed. I believe by the end of his story, he had managed to cry some real tears. I was like, Damn, this boy is good at this!! His next assignment is to vote for the house guest that America picks to be evicted. Thursdays show should prove interesting.

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Miz Weird

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In my brain, I covered everything about Sundays episode. However, as that brain contantly reminds me, I’m getting old. I forgot that this week is the first week America gets to give Eric, America’s Player, his first assignment. At the end of each episode, America can vote on which assignment they want Eric to complete. For every 5 tasks he completes, he gets $10,000. America can vote via text messaging or on the website.

His first assignment will be to pour his heart out to the person America chooses. He has to speak about a truamatic event in his life. Now, whether that has to be a true story or not, I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see.

This Weeks Nominees for Eviction:

Amber is on the chopping block this week. What I can make of her is she is a very emotional person who thinks the world of her family. HOWEVER…she may want to tone down the crying and shit as everyone in the house will get sick of it and it will end up being a downfall for her. I’ve seen it happen before. I mean, who wants to spend the whole damn summer with someone who can’t stop crying?? When in the diary room after the nominations, she said she would never have put Kail on the block due to the fact that she’s a mother too. That’s a pretty lame reason for not nominating someone. But who am I?

Carol is nominee number 2. She must be holding her cards pretty close to the vest as I haven’t seen much come from her. She has one of the 3 enemies in house and hers is Jessica. They had a conversation early on in the episode tonight and I think they’re going to try to convince everyone that they hate each other, but be secretly aligned. Yeah…cuz that’s worked so many times in the past.

When Kail made her announcements and gave her reasons for nominating these two, she did it in a very smart way. She picked a reason that no one could argue with. These two ladies were the first two out of the first HOH competition. Smart, very smart. She did elude to the fact that there were other reasons too, but no one needed to know them. Hmmm…

So at the beginning of the show tonight, the house guests competed in their first food competition. It was called Butter Me Up! and they weren’t kidding. Now, imagine this…you are living in a house (a NICE house) with 13 other people and you walk out into your backyard (a NICE backyard) and find a movie snack. Popcorn!! GIANT popcorn buckets (one for the red team and one for the blue) and giant popcorn butter dispensers. Each team has one person pressing the giant butter dispensers pumps ONTO their team mates. Said team mates must then run to the giant popcorn bucket and have other team mates squeegee the butter off of them. One team had most of the big handsome men on it. The other was stuck with mostly women. But, the women had LONG hair. I think you know where this is going. The red team ened up winning due to the volume of butter that the womens hair could hold! They had managed to drench themselves and then ring themselves out 76 pounds of butter. Wow, that’s just kinda gross! For the record, the blue team had 37 pounds of butter. (I think it was 37).

In years past, the losing team of the food challenge used to have to eat PB&J for the following week. They have since switched to Big Brother Slop. Which in and of itself, sounds down right nasty. Then they show it and I can feel the bile rising. It’s in huge buckets and they have to scoop it out. They are supposed to mix it with hot water. I believe in the past they have been allowed to mix it with like maple syrup and stuff like that. At any rate, I would much rather have the PB&J for a week.

One more big happening was the first major alliance came to be tonight. Kail, the current HOH, was approached by Zach about an alliance with him. Kail thought that was a fairly good idea, but thought they should throw Mike and Nick in the mix too. She says she wanted the other two for added protection. I have to wonder if she just didn’t want to surround herself with young, hot, ripped men?!!? I mean, who could blame her really!

A couple of observations on my part. Jen, is a bitch. A self-centered bitch. When their pictures appeared on the “picture wall”, she flew into hysterics! She complained that the angle was wrong and the lighting was wrong. Perhaps what was really wrong is the person they were shooting! I literally thought she would scream like a banshee. Jeez…get a grip and then get a life.

Observation Number 2:

Jessica is snotty. And whiney. And dizzy. And I’m having a really hard time actually pinpointing the word I’m looking for. But I don’t like her.

Drama 101: Joe, one of the original 11 in the house has one of the other enemies. His ex-boyfriend Dustin. Neither was thrilled to learn of the others existance in the house. This will be the drama this year as they shared the hammock tonight and had an argument. All I can say is Puh-lease…get over yourselves!

So, that’s the recap for tonight! Check back on Tuesday night, same time, same place to see who wins the Power Of Veto (POV) and whether they will use it. Also, it will be the first eviction. Sparks will fly!!!

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Miz Wierd

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Ok…so my computer is a complete piece of shit. It only locked up on me 3 times while trying to do this post. We will go the reformat route AGAIN tomorrow and hopefully that helps.

Anyway…I’ve been waiting since Big Brother: All Stars ended last year for the new Season. It premiered tonight and as always, it’s hard to tell on the first night who’s going to become a favorite house guest. Just imagaine…14 people whom you’ve never met, living in a house with 51 cameras and 74 microphones! Yeah…the house is WAY cool, but still…no privacy. Don’t think this blogger could do it. But…I can watch!

I’m a bit disappointed that it seems that every year BB gets to be more of a beauty contest. Now, don’t get me wrong, hot guys are hot guys and I’ll look at them til the cows come home. But what happened to the diversity of the first few years? Not all beauty queen material. They all were from COMPLETELY different life-styles. You could just tell.

I was also surprised that they revealed the first “big twist” to the house guests already. 11 people moved in and met right away. The other 3 were secretly hidden upstairs and watched and listened to the other house guests. Here’s the twist…these 3 sequestered house guests are enemies to 3 of the unsuspecting house guests downstairs. One of the house guests mentioned that the house resembled Alice In Wonderland. CBS.com calls it “Malice In Wonderland”. Should be interesting. Bring on the fights and name calling…I can’t wait!!!

Quick intros to the house guests: (after reformat tomorrow, will get some pictures to go along with these introductions. I know…I’m just lame today!)

Jessica is a 21 year old student and is from Kansas

Nick is 25 years old, hails from Minnesota and is a former pro football player

Eric, a talent management assistant, is 27 and resides in New York

Daniele is 20 (she lied to the group and said she was legal) and is a waitress from Orange County

Dick is 44, has lots of tats and piercings (oddly he reminds me of Tommy Lee), and is a bar manager in Cali

Jen is a nanny and is 23 years old. She said she also models and does a bunch of other shit…she is also from California

Mike is a painting contractor from Wisconsin and is 26

Kail is a 38 year old mother of 3 who said she would NOT give up her seat on a bus or train or whatever for a pregnant woman. And her reason???? Because no one ever did that for her. Yeah, there ya go…great role model. Teach the kids that 2 wrongs make a right… She told the group she’s a real estate agent. She lied…she’s a business owner and if I remember correctly, she stated she has plenty of money but didn’t want the others to know.

Joe is a gay receiptionist who lives in Chicago. He’s 23 years old. He’s very out there. A little over the top. Don’t know how long I’ll be able to stand that one! Why can’t Marcellas be on every season????

Carol is a student from Kansas and is 21 years old. She happens to be the daughter of a Senator. Not really sure I care, but whatever…

Amber is a 27 year old cocktail waitress in Las Vegas

Zach, a graphic designer is 30 years old and lives in California. I’m starting to see that state pop up a lot…

Dustin is in shoe sales. He is also gay but isn’t as hard to handle as Joe. He’s 22 and he is from Illinois

Jameka is a school councilor and is 27 years old. She is the only African American on the show this year and stated that she’s really not that comfortable around all those white people! She’ll be just fine

You will note that some of the above have much more descriptive intros. That’s because these are the ones that already stood out to me as being the most likely to cause trouble and turmoil! The best part of BB!!!!

They had the first HOH competition tonight already. Each house guest had to pick a partner. The 3 “enemies” did NOT participate. The competition was Julie Chen asking a series of questions to each pair of house guests. One person answered the questions, the other had to kneel down on the top of a plastic over-sized mushroom. The mushrooms had spinning tops and each time a person answered a question wrong, their partner on the mushroom would spin faster. Then throw in a bucket of goop that slightly resembled vomit (complete with whole kernels of corn) and a bit later a large poof of a floury substance lands all over the mushroom riding house guests. Makes for a mighty slippery surface. Kail and Eric were the ones to emerge as the winners. However, as we all know, there can be ONLY ONE HOH at a time. The show solved this problem by letting the 3 “hidden” people decide who should be the HOH. They picked Kail as she is the one that did the wild mushroom riding.

Well, I’m going to try to get this thing posted, but never fear…I will be back to report more! Until Then -
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Miz Weird

I like her. I tried not to. But I like her. Not just because she was a nobody and now is a somebody, I enjoy her music as well. Her upcoming CD promises to be quite different from her previous style, but I know I will listen and quite probably enjoy it.

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Miz Weird

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